The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache Portable Runtime Project are proud to announce the General Availability of version 1.6 of the Apache Portable Runtime libraries.
Now available from https://apr.apache.org/ are: * The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) version 1.6.2 * The APR Utilities library (APR-UTIL or APU) version 1.6.0 Users of earlier versions are recommended to upgrade both libraries, although it is also possible to upgrade them individually. The Apache Portable Runtime libraries provide cross-platform APIs that relieve developers of the need to deal with platform differences. They serve as a Write-Once-Run-Anywhere layer for programs written in C (or with C linkage) such as Apache's HTTPD (web server) and Subversion (revision control system). They also offer programmers facilities usually associated with higher-level languages, such as memory and resource management. PRINCIPAL CHANGES IN VERSION 1.6 Please see the CHANGES files for details of programming changes. Although APIs have been been introduced, this release is fully compatible at both source and binary level with programs developed using earlier APR-1.x/APR-UTIL-1.x versions. Externally visible changes that affect build and/or installation are: APR-1.6.2 - Build files find_apr.m4 and apr_common.m4 are now exported for the benefit of packagers. APR-UTIL-1.6.0 There are a number of updates to how APR-UTIL deals with external dependencies: - XML: - Expat sources are no longer bundled, this is now an external dependency. You must install expat on your system to use APR-UTIL (expat is installed as standard on most systems). If you are building APR-UTIL, you may need to obtain expat 2.2 or later from https://libexpat.github.io/ or depending on your system's packaging policies, install their expat-dev or expat-devel package. Note that 2.2 addressed some security vulnerabilities of earlier libexpat project releases. - CRYPTO: - OpenSSL support is updated to support OpenSSL version 1.1. - Apple's CommonCrypto is supported for Mac and IOS platforms. - DATABASE: - MySQL support has been updated as advised by the MySQL developers. MySQL versions older than 5.5 should not be used. Or if you do use an old MySQL version, you will need to hack the build to use the thread-safe libmysqlclient_r version of the library. - FreeTDS partial and incomplete support has been dropped. Users of MSSQL and SYBASE databases are recommended to use the ODBC driver instead. -- The Apache Portable Runtime Project
